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Campaign Countdown: 12.28.11

December 28, 2011 By O. Kay Henderson

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The intensity of campaigning accelerated in Iowa Tuesday. Three Republican presidential hopefuls went after rival Ron

Paul, a candidate who is shown to be leading or near the top of recent polls here. During a CNN interview Tuesday, Newt Gingrich said Paul’s total record shows a “systemic avoidance of reality.”

“There’ll come a morning where people won’t take him as a serious person,” Gingrich told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

Another candidate, Rick Santorum, criticized the Texas congressman during a campaign stop in Mason City. Santorum called Ron Paul’s views on foreign policy “scary”.

“Think about having a guy running for president who’s going to be to the left of Barack Obama on national security,” Santorum said.

Rick Perry, during a campaign stop in western Iowa, suggested Paul “would allow Iran to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.” Michele Bachmann also campaigned in western Iowa. During a stop last night in Atlantic, Bachmann said she “took it to” Ron Paul during the last TV debate, over the issue of a nuclear Iran.

Late yesterday Mitt Romney arrived in Iowa and told a crowd in Davenport that Barack Obama is a “pessimistic president” who has failed to deliver on his campaign promises. Later last night, during a radio forum organized by PersonhoodUSA, Rick Perry revealed he no longer favors abortion-ban exceptions for cases of rape and incest.

“All I can tell you is God was working on my heart,” Perry said.

Perry said he talked with a woman who was conceived in a rape after he saw the documentary “The Gift of Life” in mid-December. That conversation, Perry said, sparked his transformation on the issue. The four candidates who were in Iowa yesterday plan to campaign here today, too, with Ron Paul arriving for a noon event in Newton.

Additional reporting by Bob Fisher of KGLO in Mason City & Ric Hanson of KJAN in Atlantic
Photo credit: Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic

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